Quotes Tagged With :mourn

Do you have any idea why you might be feeling better?”“No, not really,” I said curtly. Better wasn’t....

Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will....

There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking....

The state of mind above which my distraction floats like fog is suddenly perfectly clear, though the....

I did not know the work of mourningIs like carrying a bag of cementUp a mountain at nightThe mountaintop....

The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.

The forty days of the soul begin on the morning after death.

For all her culture's attention to the physical, it seemingly has little to salve the creatural anguish....

Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet.....

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!....